Too often religion is presented as the answer to questions that no-one is asking. At The Meeting faith is presented as the adequate response to human existence.
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living reality
The biographies of those named as saints in the church often promote the false idea that a saint is more likely to be an introvert who prefers to hide in a chapel than to engage with the world.
Assumption
Knowing that we too are invited to this divine life is the whole point of human existence. To miss this point, is to miss the whole point of life.
Monty’s call
By happy coincidence I have spent time this week in the same course of study as a couple of dozen seminarians from the U.S. I have been inspired by their vocations stories and their enthusiasm
pope to priests
I am deeply grateful to those who support me in my desire to live fully as a priest.
Vocations Awareness Week
Thank you to all who are active in promoting diocesan priesthood as a fulfilling, God-centred life of adventure and service.Â
A.M.D.G.
You might remember beginning every new page of school work with the heading A.M.D.G. recalling that the letters stood for Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam (For the Greater Glory of God).
living? maybe not!
It’s the feast of Ignatius Loyola today and he has helped me to see that my fears and compulsions often tragically lead me to go through days and weeks as if I’m at least half asleep
the way of freedom
If you sometimes feel driven and trapped by your compulsion and activity you might find this reflection helpful
it’s not magic
There is a tendency to see prayer as an incantation recited in the hope of magically causing a response. But magic is not what we want. It’s relationship with God that we are seeking.
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God-words
I gave up and had some food, tried to hide from the feeling in a good novel, then a walk-in-the-rain. Nothing worked
while we sleep
Joseph would have gone to bed in turmoil, yet he woke with clear direction and new energy.
family tree
God uses the good and the bad in each of us to sow seeds and mature and nurture faith
i depend
Earlier today I was in Nazareth House home for the aged and noticed many of the residents using walking frames.
fall in love
Faith is not the addition of a programme to our already full hard-drives, or a reboot, but a new default setting.